II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Supplies
Purchase

NUTS code UKC14

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

This contract is for the design, manufacture, supply including installation, testing and commissioning of cremators and mercury abatement plant and ancillary equipment at Mountsett Crematorium including the removal of existing cremators on behalf of Durham County Council and Mountsett Crematorium Joint Committee. This Contract will also include a supporting long term maintenance and servicing agreement.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

42350000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)Lots

II.1.9)Information about variants

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

II.2.2)Information about options

II.2.3)Information about renewals

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

The contracting authority reserve the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds or other forms of
appropriate security. Further details will be set out in the tender documents if relevant.

Finance conditions and payment arrangements will be made in accordance with the contract documents.

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

The contracting authority reserve the right to require groupings of service providers to take a particular
legal form or to require a single provider to take primary liability or to require each party to undertake joint and
several liability. If relevant further details will be set out in the tender documents.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: yes
Description of particular conditions: The Council has undertaken a commitment to ensure wider social and community benefits are achieved in the
course of all it’s commissioning and procurement activities.
In accordance with this, Bidders may be required to work with the Council towards achieving such aims.

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: In accordance with article 57of Directive 2014/24/EU of the Euporean Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations
2015 and as set in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) available from the NEPO portal as detailed in
section VI.3.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: In accordance with article 58of Directive 2014/24/EU of the Euporean Parliament and of the Council
and Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations
2015 and as set in the Invitation to Tender
(ITT) available from the NEPO portal as detailed in
section VI.3.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As outlined in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) tender documentation available from the NEPO portal
as detailed in section VI.3.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
In accordance with article 58 of Directive 2014/24/
EU of the Euporean Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts
Regulations 2015 and as set in the invitation to Tender (ITT) available from the NEPO portal as
detailed in section VI.3.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Bidders must successfully pass Parts B-F of the
ITT (in line with the evaluation criteria set out in
the ITT documents) to have their responses to the
Technical Questions in Part G of the ITT and the Pricing Schedules in Part H evaluated.
Parts B-F include grounds for exclusion;
Insurance; health and safety, equality and diversity and
essential criteria.

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

A7NK-PCK1V5

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 4.4.2016 – 16:00
Payable documents: no

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

7.4.2016 – 12:00

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

VI.3)Additional information

Please note this Tender is being advertised on Durham County Council’s E-tendering system. Organisations can

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The contracting Authority will incorporate a standstill period at the point information of the award of the Contract
is communicated to bidders. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill
period which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for the unsuccessful bidders to challenge
the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Regulations 2015 provide the aggrieved
parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court
(England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained